Agnoscens quod aqua inopia, pollutio, caeli conversio, adaequatae infrastructure, Nam adipiscing urna ac metus fermentum inanis et aquam simul imperia, the Mandate released Dux aquario Related communis Action which offers good practice to help companies establish enduring relationships with a broad spectrum of stakeholders, duces, and individuals to advance shared water-related goals. To further elucidate how companies and other actors can work together to facilitate sustainable water management, the Mandate and the Water Integrity Network are leading the development of a collaborative, applied research project that seeks to understand and develop an integrity management framework, and practical supporting guidance and tools aimed at ensuring high levels of integrity and transparency in multi-stakeholder water stewardship initiatives (WSIs). The first phase of work is slated to be completed by the end of 2014.

The Mandate seeks to facilitate the implementation of these guides’ principles and practical guidance on-the-ground through its Hub Aqua Action – an online platform whereby companies communicate and partner with other businesses, Phasellus imperia, Adipiscing elit, Nullam sit amet aqua communitates progrediatur in specie ex-location. The Hub currently profiles projects and assists collective action projects in river basins around the world, including the Orange-Sengu, Limpopo, Lake Victoria, Colorado, Ganges, Wami-Ruvu, Mississippi, Rimac, and Thames and the country of Uganda and will continue to expand to additional basins in 2015.

The Mandate is currently expanding the Hub to include specialized Sustainable Agriculture and Apparel Portals that will enable companies to collaborate with their peers, cupidatat non proident, imperia, and civil society groups across the globe to address water challenges related to sustainable agriculture and apparel. The Sustainable Agriculture and Apparel Portals of the Water Action Hub will take a global-to-local approach that can galvanize and upscale on-the-ground action and align efforts of key actors to promote more sustainable practices, highlight on-going basin-level projects, and help organizations to pursue collective action to address shared water challenges related to sustainable agriculture and apparel industry supply chains. The CEO Water Mandate and its partners will “land” the portals in key water-stressed geographies and around key segments of the supply chain, and is interested in connecting with potential partners who have local expertise and/or ongoing efforts in key regions to see if it might be possible to align efforts.

The Mandate responded to this need in 2012 by developing Ferens Iurium Lens ad Corporate Aqua villicationis: Praecessi of Coepi Research in collaboration with the non-profit center of expertise on the Guiding Principles, Transeatur. This report summarizes initial research to understand and elucidate international and national legal trends relating to the right to water and sanitation, illustrating current challenges businesses face in respecting this right, necnon perspectivae potentia-afficitur communitates, and lastly identifying areas of potential synergy with companies’ existing water stewardship efforts.

In 2014, the Mandate has built upon this work by providing practical insights on how companies can best meet their responsibility to respect the HRWS, taking into account their existing corporate water stewardship practices. In January 2015, the Mandate – in partnership with Shift and drawing on Oxfam America’s extensive subject matter expertise – released Guidance for Companies on Respecting the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation, which:

Help companies translate their responsibility to respect the human rights to water and sanitation into their existing water management systems, opera, and company cultures;

Complement related efforts to clarify the obligations and responsibility of other actors (particularly states and water and sanitation service providers) with regards to the rights to water and sanitation.

This work is overseen by the Mandate’s Human Rights Working Group (HRWG).

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The Mandate has also sought to collaborate with others in the corporate water stewardship community to harmonize definitions of key water-related terms, such as “water scarcity”, “water stress”, and “water risk” that are commonly used in disclosure documents. It is also currently developing the Interactive Database of the World’s River Basins, which offers a harmonized lexicon and boundary delineations for the world’s major river basins, so as to make companies’ location-specific reporting more meaningful. In 2015, the Mandate will continue to support uptake and socialization of the Guidelines, and seek to integrate them into existing disclosure frameworks and other stewardship materials where possible.

For many companies, the vast majority of their water footprint is indirect, meaning that it takes place in their supply chains and/or product-use phases, rather than their direct operations. Talem, while improving the efficiency of a company’s direct operations is certainly important, comprehensive water risk management requires that companies also ensure their suppliers have stable access to water resources and maintain their license to operate over the long-term. If they fail to do so, companies may not be able to procure the supplies they need to make their products. The substantial size of indirect water footprints also means that supply chain management provides companies’ a great opportunity to facilitate positive water-related impacts across the globe.

The Mandate’s newest workstream aims to enable companies to monitor and encourage more sustainable water performance among their suppliers – both in manufacturing and agriculture. The Mandate Secretariat is currently in the process of launching the Stewardship in the Supply Chain Working Group. Once this is done, the Secretariat and Working Group will set out to define and develop supply-chain-related deliverables that provide the most value to Mandate endorsers and their stakeholders.

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CEO Water Mandate endorsers are invited to participate in these workstreams primarily through participation in the initiative’s corollary working groups. To join in eu velit vel, please contact Peter Schulte at pschulte@pacinst.org.